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Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) [3] was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint , a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire .
May 4, 1999 · Harold Abrahams (born Dec. 15, 1899, Bedford, England—died Jan. 14, 1978, London) was a British athlete who won a gold medal in the 100-metre dash at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. Abrahams was born into an athletic family; his older brother Sidney represented Great Britain in the Olympics in 1912.
Jul 10, 2019 · Thanks to the film Chariots of Fire and its memorable soundtrack by Vangelis, everyone knows the story of British sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, the respective winners of gold in the 100m and 400m at the Games of the VIII Olympiad.
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe British athlete Harold Abrahams was a game-changer in the 100 metres Olympic Games athletics events. Abra...
Biography. As a schoolboy at Repton, Harold won the 100 yards and the long jump at the 1918 Public Schools championships and then went up to Caius College, Cambridge, where during his four years’ residence he won a total of eight events in the annual match against Oxford.
The stories of British runners Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams are known to many through the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. As the movie tells it, Liddell was boarding a boat to the 1924 Paris Olympics when he discovered that the qualifying heats for his event, the 100-metre.
As a schoolboy at Repton, Harold won the 100 yards and the long jump at the 1918 Public Schools championships and then went up to Caius College, Cambridge, where during his four years’ residence he won a total of eight events in the annual match against Oxford.
The 1924 Paris Olympics were significant for Repton, with Harold Abrahams (Mitre 1914) emerging as one of the most notable athletes. Abrahams' victory in the 100 metres, immortalised in the film ‘Chariots of Fire’, stands as a pinnacle of Repton's Olympic history.
Nov 24, 2011 · ‘Trop Sémitique ’ ou profondément Anglicisé ' ? La vie et la carrière d'Harold Abrahams. Harold Maurice Abrahams (1899-1978) - l'athlète juif britannique rendu célèbre par le film Les chariots de feu- a gagné l'or pour la Grande-Bretagne dans le 100 m des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 1924.
From an early age, Harold Abrahams set out to emulate his two elder brothers who were both excellent athletes. As a schoolboy at Repton, Harold won the 100 yards and the long jump at the 1918 Public Schools championships and then went up to Caius College, Cambridge, where during his four years’ residence he won a total of eight events in the ...
